Joseph B. Scarnati

Gov. Tom Wolf holds a political science doctorate, but these days he's a freshman with an incomplete in the first big test of his administration — getting a budget through the Republican-controlled Legislature. Pennsylvania is now more than three weeks into its new fiscal year without a spending plan in place, raising an obvious question about what happened to the Democrat's often stated intention to be, as he said at his January inauguration, "an unconventional governor" who will work across the aisle. This week saw the first glimmer of hope that a deal might be possible, when he and GOP negotiators emerged from behind closed doors to make upbeat sounds about...

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Gov. Tom Wolf holds a political science doctorate, but these days he's a freshman with an incomplete in the first big test of his administration — getting a budget through the Republican-controlled Legislature. Pennsylvania is now more than three weeks...

Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf met in private Monday with leaders of the Republican majorities in the Legislature, but both sides reported no breakthrough in what has become a two-week budget standoff. Wolf said afterward he wants to "move beyond the...